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This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

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A Good School by Richard Yates

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Callan57

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng - Really liked Everything I Never Told You so high hopes for this one

[Deleted User]

The girl who plays go, by Shan Sa..

Probably only because I quite enjoy playing go..

But, I dunno..I think Japanese, as a language doesn't translate into English well..
This is like the third or fourth book now that I've thought the same..

autumnbelle

Stephen king the outsider. Only 80 or so pages in so far but enjoying it

4Ad

Carnival of Shadows by R.J. Ellory..
A new authour to me, a 50's Detective story, but there's so many other stories going on.
Really enjoying it..

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

LionelNashe wrote: »

I've read this, (or rather Audibled it), along with 2 or 3 of her others. The characters and the way she writes the narrators' voices are always amazing, but something's missing, I don't know what.

I find they all follow the same basic pattern of having a huge section of the book given over to investigating something that turns out to have absolutely nothing to do with the murder. I've read 4 of them and by the 3rd one I knew immediately which plot line was the red herring and which was the actual murderer.
Maybe that's the format of all these crime books but I found it really annoying by the 3rd and 4th books.

Daisies

The Goldfinch:Donna Tartt and Awaken the Giant Within: Ton Robbins

Callan57

Blind Faith by Ben Elton & Light Touch by Stephen Leather

LionelNashe

Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King. (Audible).

Irish_rat

Finished Fahrenheit 451 very good read. Think I might read The Road now.

otnomart

Just started The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst

DunnoKidz

The Collected Poems of Hazel Hall

exquisitely written, look forward to other poetry books

Sheridan81

The Long Song by Andrea Levy.

It's good so far.

Callan57

Got a lend of The President is Missing at weekend & made a start last night ... typical Patterson, short chapters easy light read.
It will do for a day at the beach!

LionelNashe

eire4 wrote: »

Finished Broken Harbor by Tana French. Another good offering from French. More of a psychological thriller this time then her other earlier books which are more crime dramas.

I've read this, (or rather Audibled it), along with 2 or 3 of her others. The characters and the way she writes the narrators' voices are always amazing, but something's missing, I don't know what.

eire4

Finished Broken Harbor by Tana French. Another good offering from French. More of a psychological thriller this time then her other earlier books which are more crime dramas.

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The Bedlam stacks by Natasha Pulley..read the watchmaker of filigree street a while ago and enjoyed it,..this one is quite good too..

Callan57

Past Mortem by Ben Elton
I really enjoyed The First Casualty so went in search of more Elton in the library ... light summer reading

otnomart

Just finished Tangerine by Christine Mangan

DunnoKidz

Found an old paperback of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Collected Sonnets

(cover is worn, but doesn't appear to've ever been read)

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Nekarsulm

Have just came across Adrian Magson, and his series of crime novels set in 1950s France.
Also starting on Liz Anderson's "Rhone MacLeod" novels.

Callan57

A Hunt in Winter by Conor Brady

bolgbui41

Jumping between books of short stories at the moment - Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel" and Jan Carson's "Children's Children". Really enjoying the bit of sci-fi, but I'm finding the Carson stories very hit and miss

otnomart

New here, so hello !
Had not be able to read fiction in ages, much prefer history books.
Picked up by chance "After the Party" by Cressida Connolly and devoured it in two days.

Just started "Cairo in the War: 1939-45" by Artemis Cooper.

Callan57

In One Person by John Irving

Joe_ Public

Have had a couple of looks at that Auster book but just thought, nah, looks a bit of a slog and remember the reviews being very mixed at best.

Currently ploughing through Goodbye to all that, the memoir of poet and WW1 officer Robert Graves. Compelling read.

LionelNashe

Wyldwood wrote: »

Officially saying goodbye to Archie Ferguson & giving up on Auster's 4 3 2 1. I found it an overly long slog. I'm just under half way and I'm finding myself dreading picking it up. The writing style is very annoying, long waffling sentences that go off on a tangent much too often. Huge passages of adolescent ramblings that go on for pages that have no bearing on the story.

The way the 4 lives of Ferguson are written makes the book very difficult to follow and I found myself constantly looking back to see which Archie this was and what his relationship was to whom. Took all enjoyment out of reading. I think I would have enjoyed it more if the 4 lives had been written consecutively rather than simultaneously.

Much as I hate to give up on a book it's just too long to slog on with so back to the library it goes.

On to Julian Barnes' The Only Story now.

I stopped after a few hundred pages, but I do plan on going back to it at some point. I had started making notes inside the back cover so I could remember which timeline was which.

Callan57

Finished Archangel ... Robert Harris is an awesome writer

Now its Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga
and on the phone Stoner by John Williams

Wyldwood

Officially saying goodbye to Archie Ferguson & giving up on Auster's 4 3 2 1. I found it an overly long slog. I'm just under half way and I'm finding myself dreading picking it up. The writing style is very annoying, long waffling sentences that go off on a tangent much too often. Huge passages of adolescent ramblings that go on for pages that have no bearing on the story.

The way the 4 lives of Ferguson are written makes the book very difficult to follow and I found myself constantly looking back to see which Archie this was and what his relationship was to whom. Took all enjoyment out of reading. I think I would have enjoyed it more if the 4 lives had been written consecutively rather than simultaneously.

Much as I hate to give up on a book it's just too long to slog on with so back to the library it goes.

On to Julian Barnes' The Only Story now.

LionelNashe

Finished 'The Lady in the Lake', a Philip Marlowe novel by Raymond Chandler. Not bad, but some of the twists were very easy to see coming.

eire4

With the World Cup finals getting underway I cracked out John Doyle's The World Is A Ball. Which is kind of a travelogue of the journalists travels through the World Cup Finals of 02, 06 and 2010 and the Euro Finals of 04 and 08. The book is more focused on the atmosphere surrounding the games and people watching the fans rather then focused on the actual matches themselves. Highly recommend it a great read and timely of course right now.